Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1887-11-03

presiding elder; Canton, A. Jameson:
Sioux Falls. +. NJ. Robertson; Yanktop.
+. A. Burdick.
Watertown District-A. ID. Traveller.
presiding elder; Watertown, L. E. Cough.
Milbank, w. II. Jordan; Big Stone City,
Charles Arthur.
w. p. Alsip and J. H. Hill arrived a!
Grand Forks having Mr. Alsip's littla
daughter, who vas abducted by her
mother and taken to Fergus Falls. II
was found necessary to sue out a writ
OF habeas corpus to recover the child.
A Finlander named William Gabriel
son, who owned farm east OF Fred.
erick fell from a load of grain and was
crushed to death.
Mrs. Henry Newton, one OF the old
settlers IN Wolsey county, is dead.
The date OF the meeting of the stock
breeders association. which was fxed
at the Mitchell fair for Oct. %, has
been changed to Nov. 25. The meet.
ing will be held in jamestown and
promises to bring together quite o
number of stockmen.
At the Methodist conference at Far.
go, the committee or college reported
and recommended that the institution
be located somewhere in the Red Riv.
er yalley-either IN Dakota or Min
nesota-with the understanding that
no other similar institution shall be
established within the next ten years
and q committee OF FIVE be appoint
ed to confer with a like committe<
from the Minnesota conference in re-
gard to the selection of a site. Fargo
and Moorhead are the only places
spoken OF as a locationfor the school,
The report was accepted.
Several cases OF claim jumping I'm
der the recent decision ofthe secretary
OF the interior with regard to indemni
ty lands, have been reported at Car
rington north OF jamestown. Two
sections belonging to Elliott Smith &
New York have been squatted gpon,
and several other pieces have been
shacked. Some interest ng litigation
is promised if this continues.
Charles A. Wilson, a stenographa
with the law firm of Dillon & Preston
and Miss Minnie BroSaw OF Mitchell
were quietly married at Alexandra
recently. The parents of the bridt
knew nothing OF the wedding. althougt
there was no objection to it, tht
couple having been engaged for SOM
time.
G. A. Weller, who was register q
the land office at Yankton rom Sept
1875 to July /, 1856, and for twelvt
years editor and publisher of the Frs
Press, an influential German pApf
died of apoplexy. He was among tt
most talented and influential German
citizens. He served in the Forty-hitf
Wisconsin regiment in the civil VA
and was mustered out a lieutenank
He had but recently returned fron
Europe.
A slide of rock on 160 feet OF lese
OF the Iron Hill mine, at Deadsood
brought down ore OF the estlmstse
value OF one hundred thousand dot
lars. Assays are said TO give are
turn of one hundred and tvent1
thousand dollars per ton and It $50
lieved that a very large body exn1
which will reach that value.
One of the boilers in Sioux Falls gs
works exploded, jarringt the entireei'y
There were two men in the building y
the time and they escaped Witnos.
injury, although the building W
thoroughly demolished. Ogden pr
rett, an old man who was driving :
horse in the vicinity, was seriously z
iured.
The Northern Pacific, La Mouns
Missouri railroad, an extension Of
Fargo & Southwestern, has been eeI
pleted as far as Edgeiy, and slnn
operatsd to that point after Nos.
Burglars went through the Arllnss0s
house at Mitchell, taking TIE pev
prietor's clothes and S15 in cash.
.WE#I
Jacob Hanson, ex-counsy couin's
sioner, and Jens A. To1y, pronl'n1
Hamiin county farmers, were 49,
ed in Lake Poinsett. They haa
fishing and hunting in a snaii IN N
and it is supposed it capsizea
deceased leave large families.
Gov. Church has directed Tress''s
Raymond to proceed on Nov.
collect the Northern Pacicfc rals
tax. Attorney General Ien. Il
will 90 to Bismarck and reh''A'
til the matter is settled.
George Barney, Edward
William Dehartig, w. Durggins az
L. Lump, farmers living nea.
having first obtained permission
deputy United States marsnal
| on the Winnebago Indian resef.e
to catch drift wood from the h
| river. A hand of Indians came "
captured their fine team, nres
| the farmers, caught and oeas ia
and then bound them hana an as,zec
and took them to Fort Nc
VIII IRE they are still in captisiss
At Glendale, the boiler oh1
with John H. Glass thresnlns
exploded. Several men Esss 81.
outright or fatally wounded,
died shortly after the accidens
red, and two more are nos +Sos,
TO recover. The names rssss
ready dead arc John IL,
Gardner, and Fred Banm